Do you have a song list or particular artist that reflected the way you
feel? I grew up on The Police and Sting. So many songs to relate to
loneliness, isolation, failure, regret and depression. Was the
soundtrack to my clinically depressed adolescen...
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Do you have a song list or particular artist that reflected the way you
feel? I grew up on The Police and Sting. So many songs to relate to
loneliness, isolation, failure, regret and depression. Was the
soundtrack to my clinically depressed adolescence. I remember even as an
under 12, with childhood depression, picking the inherent sadness out of
ABBA songs, which of course is why they used ABBA for the soundtrack to
Muriel's Wedding, a movie about escaping toxic parents/childhood and
finding the positive and making the best of life regardless of the
limited resources you have. As my anger grew during teen years, my
appetite for heavier music grew, although I initially loathed it. Guns N
Roses channelled my anger out, my first heavy band. Specific songs I
relate totally through mental illness - Dirty Creature - Split Enz
(paranoia, anxiety, depression) Metallica - a true mental illness
sufferers band Ride the Lightning Fade to Black (depression, emptiness
and suicidal ideation) Master of Puppets (substance addiction)
Sanitarium (committed to mental asylum) ...and Justice for All Harvester
of Sorrow (regret, hatred and desire for revenge) Frayed ends of sanity
(tick every mental illness box) Dyers Eve (reflecting on psychological
abuse by parents and its crippling effect on your life) Sad but true
(your inner tormenting voice who is actually always there for you, your
best friend, whether you like them or not) The Unforgiven (resentment of
lifelong manipulation by others in power of your destiny) The God that
failed (reflecting on parental abuse through religious extremism) The
Struggle Within/My friend of Misery (people who unrelentingly cling to
their victimhood rather than getting on with their lives) Load Ain't my
- (putting up with people who will drag you down) 2x4 (the desire for
revenge) House that Jack built (the temporary escape but downside of
substance abuse in escaping from reality) Ronnie (mentally ill people
ending up as mass killers) Reload Low man's lyric - regrettably where a
lot of mentally ill people end up, homeless, on the street and unable to
break the cycle) Unforgiven II (Emotional abuse from partners) FiXXXer
(reflecting on parental abuse and the substance abuse used to escape,
perhaps even suicide) St Anger Pretty much entirely a mental health
issues album, done whilst they were in group therapy, not ironically
Death Magnetic/Hardwired to Self Destruct Pretty much most songs a
mental health song. Issues.
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